The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence improved during the month from a nine-year low.
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However, the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence was higher than expected in June.
Yet in December a widely watched index of consumer confidence soared to a 31-year high.
Falling employment largely explains why the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence fell sharply in July.
The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence also fell, for the third month running, reaching a two-year low.
The first, the MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence, proclaimed Indian consumers as the most optimistic throughout Asia.
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The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence rebounded from a nine-year low of 79.6 in October to 84.1 in November.
The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence fell unexpectedly, led by the most pessimistic assessment of the situation for over four years.
The Conference Board, a private research group, said its index of consumer confidence fell to 82.2 in November, its lowest level in more than seven years, compared with a downwardly revised 85.3 in October.
While rising food and energy costs are forcing consumer sentiment metrics lower, with the University of Michigan consumer confidence index hitting a 16-month low in March and probably heading lower, according to Capital Economics, consumers have managed to weather the storm and keep spending going.
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The University of Michigan's consumer-confidence index was stronger at the end of July than preliminary estimates had indicated, but still much weaker than in June.
The June Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the preliminary July University of Michigan consumer confidence survey will be published on Friday.
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The latest reading of the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index shows consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2007.
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The Consumer Confidence Index, a survey of how optimistic or pessimistic people feel about the economy, has been up and down in 2010, and consumers still feel pessimistic about the job market.
And we learned that February may not have been any better, since the Conference Board reported the bottom has dropped out of consumer confidence, its Consumer Confidence Index plunging from 56.5 in January to 46.0 in February. (The norm for the index is 100, based on its level in 1985).
The rally came despite the collapse in the Conference Board's monthly consumer confidence index, which fueled concerns about the likely depth of the expected recession in the U.S. in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Surprisingly, Mumbai recorded the least score in consumer confidence with 69.3 Index points in the first half of 2012.
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Consumer confidence, as measured by the University of Michigan's index, rebounded in May.
Meanwhile, the Conference Board's consumer-confidence index for May jumped to a five-year high of 76.2, much better than expectations for a reading of 72 and an upwardly revised April reading of 69.
February new homes sales are expected to decline 5% on the month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 415, 000 and the Conference Board's March consumer confidence index is seen slipping to 67.1 from February's 69.6.
The manufacturing sector grew at its fastest pace since June 2011 in February, according to the Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index, while U.S. consumer confidence was at its highest level since November, according to Thomson-Reuters and University of Michigan's consumer-sentiment index.
Perhaps it is time Wall Street begins paying attention to Main Street whose consumer confidence index this week dropped by its widest margin month-to-month since August of 2011.
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